William Lane- solo violist, chamber musician, improviser, (try-hard) composer, researcher and collaborator.
Influences
Teachers: Jan Sedivka, Bruno Giuranna, Garth Knox, members of Ensemble Modern; all the composers and performers I work with; musicians and composers from far and wide and of many styles and genres...
Australian violist William Lane has a growing reputation as a solo artist, chamber musician, improviser, artistic director and collaborator. Recipient of a number of large scholarships and prize-winner at various international competitions, he has performed as a soloist and chamber musician all over Australasia, Asia, Europe and North America. He studied under Jan Sedivka, Bruno Giuranna and Garth Knox, as well as in Germany at the International Ensemble Modern Akademie.
He is Artistic Director and Violist of ‘Grenzenlos’, a twenty-member New York/ Berlin/ Melbourne network of musicians dedicated to inter-cultural collaboration through the medium of new music. Grenzenlos’s 2007-2008 season include concerts in over seven countries, and developing long-term artistic collaborations in particularly non-Western countries (particularly India and China). In 2007 William will spend some time in India performing and researching as resident Asialink fellow of the ORKA-M International Institute of Innovative Music in Mumbai.
William Lane is Acting Principal Viola of the string orchestra Ensemble Resonanz (Hamburg), as well as working on a freelance basis with Ensemble Modern (Frankfurt), the SMASH Ensemble (Salamance, Spain), and with members of ‘Grenzenlos’ on various freelance projects. As an orchestral musician he has worked with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and as Principal Viola with the Australian Youth Orchestra. Highlights of the 2007-08 season include performances with Ensemble Resonanz in Germany and the Middle East; solo recitals in New York, Australia, France, Italy and Mexico; and developing long-term artistic collaborations with interesting personalities, for example Samson Young (composer/ video artist) and Sebastien Roux (IRCAM-based sound artist). In addition, he will guest lecture and perform at universities in Australia, England, Ireland, Italy, Mexico and the U.S.A.
He has worked closely with some of the world’s great composers of today, including Helmut Lachenmann, Georges Aperghis, Steve Reich, Emmanuel Nunes and Gyorgy Kurtag; and has commissioned over a dozen exciting new works for viola.
William Lane's first solo CD is due for release in mid-2009.
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After you've finished here, you may like to hear this poem sung on myspace...
Poem 162 of 230, WalkaboutsVerse (please see my blog): TEES TO TYNE: FIRST IMPRESSIONS - SUMMER 2001
Where traditions are not so rare; Sea, country and works scent the air; A multitude of monuments, Planted tubs and patterned pavements.
The longish pedestrian malls; The remnants of defensive walls; Historic buildings are a gauge Of the respect for heritage.
Wheat, rape and pines in the fields; Estuaries guarded by shields; Long sandy beaches and wide scenes; Romantic-ruin go-betweens.
Rivers in parts licked by trees, Or fringed by boat clubs, wharfs, gantries, And crossed by practical delights - Varied spans, forming pleasing sights.
Fine churches headed at Durham; Football kits ad infinitum; Kept castles - one for study; Masonry behind masonry.
And, with moulding-works out that way, It’s somewhere for a longer stay..?
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After you've finished here, you may like to hear this poem sung on myspace...
Poem 2 of 230, WalkaboutsVerse (please see my blog): WALKABOUT WITH MY PEN
Once drove an old sedan, up north, From a place in Sydney to Cairns; Then to Kuranda I went forth, By train, to look without set plans.
I browsed through the trendy market, With fresh fruits of tropical kind; Walked to the creek through lush thicket - Nature’s hand giving peace of mind.
I dined in a scenic cafe; Then, outside, as I wrote for yen, Some passing Kooris called-out: “Hey, You go walkabout with your pen.”
Request or question, I don’t know - Assured voices, elderly men. That’s now several years ago, And I’ve seen the world - with my pen.
Thanks for the message. yes, pass by and let's talk!... give me a call or email me. So, hope to see you around here soon. I don't know until when you'll be in town. I will be playing w/my band at the Issue Project Room an experimental in Brooklyn on March 28th. Let me know if can see that.
Keep in touch,
Arthur
P.S. Thanks for the good wishes to my NY Philharmonic Commission!... -- Yes, I am working on this commission a lot right now... AK
a super-song, a mega-composition, something that astonishes people, that makes them sob, laugh and rejoice. No “sophisticated” art but no cheap entertainment either. Take the best of pop, jazz, tango, opera, operetta, klezmer, soul, blues, minimalist music, virtuosic violin-music (Paganini, Wienawsky, Sarasate) and so on, or compose your own style. Everything is fine as long as the audience is crazy about it.
Concerning the playing technique the composition is expected to be sophisticated, challenging and unconventional. It is expected to combine new effects with innovative sounds and hot rhythms.
Instrumentation: 2 violins
Duration: approximately 5 minutes of music
Awards: 1. Prize: 3000 Euros Heinrich-Vetter Preis 2. Prize: 2000 Euros Bourgier-Seisser-Cleve-Werhahn-Preis 3. Prize: 1000 Euros Pro Musica Viva Maria Strecker-Daelen Preis 4. Prize: 400€ Additionally, there will be two extra prizes of the PE-Förderkreis for students of music: each consists of 250 Euros!
Deadline: 01.07.2009
Course of events: With the professional counselling of Prof. Sidney Corbett we will determine a preselection (in total six compositions) among all the compositions sent in. That preselection is presented to the audience at the concert of awardees (on the 18th of September 2009 at the Reiss-Engelhorn Museum, Mannheim). The audience is going to vote for the awarding.
Sure i would love to catch up! I'm pretty busy these days with a New York Philharmonic commission!! So I am composing and de-composing in many directions, if you know what I mean. But please stop by for a coffee uptwon NY. Let's definitively get in touch. I think that the Grenzelos project is fantastic and maybe we can plan "something perverse" for the near future?... Just email me whenever you get to town and we go from there...
